Sitting outside in what appears to be a garden, Stroud, whose Facebook profile identifies him as a trombonist and brass tutor, opted to have some fun and take a break and play Nikolai ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

There are four small encores to nibble on at the start of this edition of Performance Today. Pianist Olga Kern lets her fingers do the buzzing in Rimsky-Korsakov's ever-popular "Flight of the ...

We hear pianist Orion Weiss in concert with music by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908). First, we hear two of Scarlatti's short sonatas for keyboard, K. 247, ...

The title "Mlada" may be obscure, but many of the piece's musical and dramatic elements are apt to be familiar to listeners. Rimsky-Korsakov's extravagantly fanciful 1892 opera, which forms the climax ...

Chopin’s solo piano études helped push the genre into uncharted territory. He would have practiced examples by Czerny and Clementi in his youth, but his own Op. 10 and Op. 25 sets make far more ...

To open this program, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA welcomes Spanish harpist Cristina Montes Mateo. She is featured in a challenging 20th-century piece, the “Concerto Capriccio” by the Catalan ...

Last week, Eric Simpson and I did a podcast, discussing the upcoming music season. Or, I should say, the second half of the season—the 2015–16 classical-music season in New York. I think of a music ...

As reported in fellow Journal blog Digits, tech company Smule sent an iPad loaded with its new app, Magic Piano, to Chinese prodigy Lang Lang earlier this month. Smule co-founder Ge Wang didnt hear ...